swlabr 13 minutes ago • 100%
morewrite is thataway --->
swlabr 6 hours ago • 100%
None of these fucking goblins have learned that analogies aren’t equivalences!!! They break down!!! Auuuuuuugggggaaaaaaarghhhh!!!!!!
swlabr 9 hours ago • 100%
I’m a Bitcoiner but my teeth are straight and white
lol
swlabr 1 day ago • 100%
navigating this space without alignment with larger corporate players
stares into middle distance, hollow laugh
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
DHH: today I will RP as a high schooler writing an essay for software class about a program you should use
full disclosure: I use vim and honestly I don’t even know why anymore. Maybe it’s because I had a brief, trivial interaction with Bram Moolenaar (RIP king) in which he closed a bug that I opened by mistake, and I imprinted on him for some reason.
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
Enter these into your data banks, you automaton:
- The chinese room was brought up as a tangent to a tangent, why are you doubling down on mansplaining it?
- nobody was even talking about whether or not it is a good or bad concept, we were just talking about the problematic dude that made it popular
- you are in a space that is critical of AI. The chinese room was brought up by name. You think we don’t know what it is and that you need to explain it?
- literally all you had to do to seem even remotely reasonable was to not try mansplain AGAIN and yet you did. I wrote what I said as a joke and you went ahead and turned it into prophecy. You buffoon!!!
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
Scientists: weird, we didn’t slip this piece of paper saying “mansplain the chinese room thought experiment” through the door, and yet that’s all the room seems to want to do. I guess we just have to conclude the room is an idiot?
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
complete tangent but ::: spoiler hades II spoiler I just love eris in hades II. :::
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
This is old news (but news to me, a non twitterer): edgelord musk changes water pistol emoji to gun
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
Welcome to my new startup where we train LLMs on compiled binaries. Now you can just prompt and get a complete executable, no coding knowledge needed. We value our company at $5b, product launch date indeterminate
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
It’s much more awkward as a subject of the crown. I tried explaining the game “telestrations” as pictionary + chinese whispers before I had this knowledge. I didn’t know!!! It’s even right there in the name!!! I swear I’m not racist!!!
(Note: I am of chinese origin and have heard my extended family mangle messages through the telephone. So both names are real to me)
swlabr 2 days ago • 100%
what we are best at here at HN
It’s always bootlicking with this crowd jfc
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
~~no~~
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
I have pretty much the exact opposite of redundancy right now, i.e. I am the single failure point for most of the IT in the company. Send help
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
Chinese whisper
Complete tangent but outside of the commonwealth, this game is referred to by the much less racist moniker “telephone”
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
Gaslighting? What are you talking about? There’s no such thing as gaslighting. Maybe you’re going crazy
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
Pinker: looking through my photo album where I’m with people like Krauss and Epstein, shaking my head the whole time so the people on the bus know I disagree with them
swlabr 3 days ago • 100%
Who could have predicted that liberalism would lead into scientific racism and then everything else that follows (mostly fascism)???
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
incredible, cryptocurrency has democratised (looks at cards) hunger-games style exploitation of human life and dignity for profit
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
I hear 90% of the dev time was spent adding "please don't generate any elsagate content" to the prompt over and over
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
have they tried writing better prompts? my lived experience says that because it works for me, it should work as long as you write good prompts. prompts prompts prompts. I am very smart. /s
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
I hate hate hate this so much. This is precisely the kind of smug, reductionist, dunning-kruger, every-problem-is-a-nail-and-programming-is-my-hammer type of shit that fuels my hatred of not only TESCREAL but pretty much everyone I meet in STEM.
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
I have found a way to solve world hunger with a fork bomb
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
That’s just being good at bootlicking
swlabr 4 days ago • 100%
It sucks to have to decolonise your darlings. It sucks that a lot of our most enjoyable stories are copaganda. Even the most redeemable stories about cops have probably inspired people to become cops.
swlabr 6 days ago • 100%
Pay no attention to the three LLMs stacked together behind the curtain!
swlabr 6 days ago • 100%
Also, bernie can still win (the 2016 election)
swlabr 7 days ago • 100%
Like a century of science: yeah we’re pretty sure where carbon emissions come from. Everyone needs to slow the fuck down. There’s no need to pontificate about the specifics, especially if that somehow produces even more emissions. That would be catastrophic, you see.
MSFT: hold my beer
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
When [musk’s new] supercomputer gets to full capacity, the local utility says it’s going to need a million gallons of water per day and 150 megawatts of electricity — enough to power 100,000 homes per year.
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
Some ok anti-AI voices in that thread. But mostly a torrent of shit
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
My heuristic is basically: until we can easily control the environment of earth, terraforming will not be on the horizon. Given that we are hell-bent on driving off of as many cliffs as we can, I’m pretty happy to continue thinking that we’ll never get off this rock proper within the ol’ lifespan
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
diminish humans and humanity
AKA tell on themselves
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
if it’s not in video form
Actually this isn’t enough. It needs to be read by a monotone TTS or deepfaked voice with minecraft, subway surfer, or fortnite gameplay underlaid to penetrate brain rot
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
At least RFKJ has brainworms he can blame.
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
Just one more model bro
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
Nobody should be surprised that a politician in the west is proposing that we funnel more money into private companies rather than just fixing the root cause.
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
According to my former left-libertarian roommate: also the scumbag scion of a political dynasty I think? I didn’t look into it because I had no reason to doubt
swlabr 1 week ago • 100%
BRB training an LLM to be a super-goalpost-mover
> On the hottest and coldest days, when demand for electricity peaks and the price rockets, the bitcoin miners either sell power back to providers at a profit or stop mining for a fee, paid by ercot. Doing so has become more lucrative than mining itself. In August of 2023 Riot collected $32m from curtailing mining and just $8.6m from selling bitcoin. Archive link: https://archive.md/O8Cz9
swlabr 2 weeks ago • 100%
As someone too cowardly to explore their kinks. I lack context. Now you have provided data to reinforce my reticence.
Kind of sharing this because the headline is a little sensationalist and makes it sound like MS is hard right (they are, but not like this) and anti-EU. I mean, they probably are! Especially if it means MS is barred from monopolies and vertical integration.
TIL that television program “The Boys” has an in universe cryptocurrency as a satire of, well, cryptocurrency in general but also specifically that time when DJT was selling NFTs. [They occasionally tweet](https://xcancel.com/VoughtIntl/status/1812170121881727002#m) about it. It has a listing on the “BSCScan” crypto tracker under the name “VTC” so someone might have actually minted it? It might surprise some of you that I have no way of telling the realness of such a thing.
Uncritically sharing this article with naive hope. Is this just PR for a game? Probably. Indies deserve as much free press as possible though.
As is tradition I am sharing this link without having listened yet.
The video game in question: ![](https://awful.systems/pictrs/image/3fade300-cbd2-4f2a-b418-86678ea63435.jpeg)
Followup to [part 1](https://awful.systems/post/1056266), which now has a transcript! As is tradition, I am posting this link without having listened to it. (too many podcasts)
Just a lil tidbit of news of some web3 based company going away.
Found this because an article on Helen Toner popped up in my feed and I wanted to find out more, and boy did I find out more.
Not sure how much needs to be said here. Sometimes I come back to a tab with a.s open and refresh, then get logged out. I’m using chrome on iOS but this might be reproducible on other browser/platform combinations.
Discussion on AI starts at about 17mins. The Bas(ilisk) drop happens at 20:30. Sorry if ads mess up my time stamps. I think this is the second time it’s come up on the show.
Don't expect a good or deep analysis of FTX or any TREACLESy stuff here.